"THY KINGDOM COME."

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 162, 10 July 1889, Page 2

"THY KINGDOM COME."

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Since Professor and Mrs Aldis strongly object to prohibition and total abstinence generally, I have hoped that someone would ask them a few honest questions, begging thab their answers may be given without circumlocution. This I now do. Temperance efforts aro admittedly feeble, often ill-judged ; but will Mr and Mrs Aldis dare to wish thab such efforts should now cease entirely ? Will they dare to say that the world would be better to-day, morally and intellectually, if the temperance reform had never been heard of? • _ 1 If the Temperance Lesson Book " is bad science of a bad cla.s," why, in the name of common sense, do they not give us good science of a good class, that the common people can understand and appreciate ? Why rest content with fault-finding ? Any ignoramus can do that ! Mr and Mrs Ald.B rightly protest against legalised prostitution. Tho chastity of her women should be the nation's tenderest care; bub why nob as resolutely oppose all legalised infamy 1 The greab wrong is thab bhe State, which should be established in righteousness, is a responsible partner in the vile trade of raising huge gin palaces that men may get drunk on bhe premises. I would cut the liquor traffic adrift to stand on its own merits, as all legitimate trade must do. Mr and Mrs Aldis profess to be followers of the Man of Sorrows. Do they dare to believe that if the Christ of history, the most intrepid reformer thab ever trod this earth, seeing the widespread desolation caused by the drink traffic, were among us to-day, that His sympathies and influence, whatever they might be, would be given to the above traffic, against the despised Temperance Reform ? My faith demands consistency through and through the entire being. Truth has ever been with the minority, and that minority moves the world; the majority ultimately accepting as highest truth whab ib once branded as falsehood. Who will advance tho " Kingdom " ?—I am, etc., Ellen E. Ellis.